Category: PRESS | FAUX REALITIES

VICELAND program SLIDESHOW interviews Signe Pierce about her series Faux Realities (2017), which recently showed at Annka Kultys Gallery. Pierce explains: “Theres something almost therapeutic about color, beauty and light; but there is an element of tragedy that hovers over these pictures.” Watch the full interview here.

Signe Pierce’s exhibition Faux Realites was reviewed by Art Maze International art critic Christina Nafziger. Nafziger writes, first solo show “Annka Kultys Gallery has brought thought-provoking exhibitions to East London that have generated a dialogue surrounding new, digital techniques being utilized by contemporary artists. Its Summer exhibition Faux Realities, showcasing the photography of artist Signe Pierce , proved to be of no exception.” Read the complete article here.

In concurrence with her first solo show at Annka Kultys Gallery, Monopol profiles ‘reality artist’ Signe Pierce. Describing Faux Realities and the instafamous quality of Pierce’s work, the author writes, “She has shown her photographs there, a best of @signepierce to a certain extent; the viral hits from the social media.” Read the full profile here.

Aesthetica Magazine reviews Signe Pierce’s first solo show at Annka Kultys Gallery, Faux Realities. The author writes that in Pierce’s photography “the role of the artist becomes one of surreal authority; one that can edit, compose and create new landscapes and identities through an excessive spectrum of possibility.” Read the full write-up here.

Signe Pierce exhibition Faux Realities, was included in Londonist Things To Do Today in London: Friday 23 June, 2017. “Fluorescent lights, escalators in Vegas, a flower in a puddle. All glow in bright neon colours in a photography exhibition designed for the Instagram generation. .” says writer Tabish Khan, “Beauty is found in consumerism and its byproducts.” Read the complete article here.

Signe Pierce exhibition at AKG is reviewed by Alice Bucknell for This is Tomorrow. “‘Faux Realities’ is a touchstone for this series of simulacra: it is the first time that Pierce’s photographs have been exhibited off the screen, and to a scale larger than a desktop monitor (or more commonly, one’s iPhone: a nice synchrony with their mode of capture). Blown up to size A0 prints and edited accordingly, the photographs appear like a HDR vision cloaked in low-res fuzzy ambience.”, writes Bucknell. Read the full review here.

‘Faux Realities’, Signe Pierce’s exhibition at AKG was reviewed by Eric Iannitti for Unrated. “For Pierce, the series is a meditation on the increasingly murky notion of what we consider “real” in both life and art today, in the age of fake news, digital art and sophisticated editing tools”, writes Iannitti. Read the full article here.

Signe Pierce was interviewed by Ione Gamble for Dazed Magazine about her current show at AKG ‘Faux Realities’. “By straddling reality and illusion, the New York based artist exposes the absurdities of femininity while also proving its a force to be reckoned with”, writes Gamble. Read the full interview here.

Signe Pierce’s exhibition ‘Faux Realities’ at AKG was reviewed by Gowithyamo. “This electric show encompasses a series of fascinations and encourages the viewer to consider what is ‘real’ in an increasingly simulated world.” Read the full review here.